Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Valerie Paskevich Publication_Date: Unpublished Material Title: CANADA_WVS_GEO_WGS84 - World Vector Shoreline of Canada Edition: 1.1 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Online_Linkage: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/canada/shoreline/canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip Description: Abstract: This data layer represents the Canadian provinces and territories as well as coastline, international boundaries, and provincial boundaries. It was created from a combination of World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data and World Data Bank II (WDBII) data to produce a medium resolution shoreline with provincial and international boundaries. Purpose: This shapefile may be used as a general basemap data layer to illustrate the shoreline of Canada with detail appropriate for national, regional, and local levels, and may be utilized in any Geographic Information System (GIS). Supplemental_Information: Internal lakes have been removed from the source data, Word Vector Shoreline (WVS), during processing as this data set is intended to provide a relatively detailed representation of the Canadian shoreline. Shoreline based on Mean High Water (MHW). This data compilation does not include all the features (such as lakes, rivers, breakwaters, glaciers, international boundaries, country names, etc.) that DMA has in their original data set (WDBII). Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: unknown Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -141.014576 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -52.621617 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 83.212613 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.904434 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: World Vector Shoreline Theme_Keyword: Defense Mapping Agency Theme_Keyword: coastlines Theme_Keyword: digital vector data Theme_Keyword: shapefile Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal Theme_Keyword: boundaries Theme_Keyword: elevation Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Canada Place_Keyword: North America Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: These data are NOT to be used for navigation purposes. These data are NOT to be used for legal purposes. Public domain data from the U.S. government is freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the United States Geological Survey as the originator of this dataset. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/canada/shoreline/canada_wvs_geo_wgs84-thumb.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Thumbnail image showing extent and data coverage of layer. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/canada/shoreline/canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image showing extent and coverage of data layer. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/canada/shoreline/east_canada_wvs.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image showing detail of eastern Canada shoreline. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Data_Set_Credit: Please recognize the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) as the originator of the World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for originator of the Medim Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline of the Great Lakes region. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Attributes were labelled by visual identification. Country name, sovereign and island name were identified from various map sources. The island attribute is incomplete. Logical_Consistency_Report: No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data. No duplicate features are present. All polygons are closed, and all lines intersect where intended. No undershoots or overshoots are present. Completeness_Report: This is a subset of the World Vector Shorline north America coastline. The shoreline of Canada was extracted to create an ArcView shapefile format data layer for use in GIS applications. The WVS data were merged with WDBII political boundaries to add the US/Canada political boundary and internal Canadian provincial boundaries. Some smaller islands (less than a dozen) may have been lost during processing due to unresolved closures in the original dataset. Coastlines of the larger Canadian lakes that were present in the WVS data set were deleted. This data set is intended to be a relatively accurate and medium-resolution representation of the Canadian shoreline, Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Feature specification that 90% of all identifiable shoreline features should be located within 500 metres (i.e. 2mm at 1:250,000) of their true geographic position with respect to the WGS-84 datum. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: International Hydrographic Review Publication_Date: 1990 Publication_Time: Unknown Title: World Vector Shoreline for North America Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Source_Scale_Denominator: 250000 Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl Source_Contribution: The World Vector Shoreline (WVS) dataset was developed by the National Geospatial-Information Agency (NGA) (formerly the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency - DMA) as a digital data file, at a nominal scale of 1:250,000 and referenced to the World Geodetic System (WGS-84) datum. The WVS is divided into ten ocean basin area files. This data layer is a subset of the North America region and provides the main source of the Canadian shoreline used to create this data layer. The main source material for the WVS was DMA's Digital Landmass Blanking (DLMB) database which was derived primarily from the Joint Operations Graphics and coastal nautical charts produced by DMA. The DLMB data consisted of a land/water flag file on a 3 by 3 arc-second interval geographic grid. This raster database was converted into vector form to create WVS and explains the 3 arc-second stepping interval apparent in the coastline when plotted out at high scale. For areas of the world not covered by the DLMB database, the shoreline was taken from the best available hard copy sources at a preferred scale of 1:250,000 (or up to 1:125,000 where the source data allowed). The DMA WVS datasets were compiled into separate 'coast' format data files for use with the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program cartographic plotting program MAPGEN during the 1980's. These 'coast' format files were the source to retrieve the WVS datasets and is the result of what is presented here. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Title: World Databank II (WDBII) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1982 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: WDBII Source_Contribution: The internal boundaries of Canada were extracted from the data set. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Title: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Online_Linkage: http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/projects/shoreline/shoreline.html Source_Scale_Denominator: 70000 Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Great Lakes Coast Source_Contribution: GL80_1 through GL80_5 provide the shoreline all five Great Lakes in their entirety and the St. Lawrence River/Seaway to Ogdensburg, New York. The shoreline of Ontario was extracted from this data set and replaced the low resolution shoreline. Process_Step: Process_Description: Program 'getcoast' was used to extract the vector coastline information and create ASCII lat/lon text files of the various archived coastline files at the USGS, Woods Hole Science Center. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.cdr Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.cdt Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wdbII.cdr Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wdbII.cdt Process_Date: 20011128 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_natl.txt Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: wdbii.txt Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The required vector text files were imported into vector segments in the PCI database and verified Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wvs_wnatl.txt Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: wdbii.txt Process_Date: 20011128 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: na.pix Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The WVS data for Canada was extracted from the North America region and stored in a new vector segment of a new PCI file. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: na.pix Process_Date: 20040708 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada.pix Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The vector data was checked to insure closed polygons for all the islands. The shoreline of Ontario along the Great Lakes (Lakes Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) was replaced with the NOAA's medium resolution digital vector shoreline of the Great Lakes shoreline to provide more detail. Attribute fields for province name and abbreviation were added. The final vector segment was exported from the PCI file. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada.pix Process_Date: 20040323 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada.e00 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Converted the exported data file to a coverage. The coverage was then processed with ArcInfo to clean and build the polygons. The cleaned coverage was then exported as a shapefile. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada.e00 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx Process_Date: 20041014 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.prj Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Created a 'prj' file for the data layer. The data layer was visually checked in ArcGIS. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Process_Date: 20041018 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Closed two small island polygons that were causing the data layer to flip the polygon coverages. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx Process_Date: 20060804 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.dbf Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.shx Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Information Specialist / GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 29012 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition: Depth_System_Definition: Depth_Datum_Name: Mean high water Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: canada_wvs_geo_wgs84 Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: AREA Attribute_Definition: Area of polygon in native units. Attribute_Definition_Source: Software Computed Attribute: Attribute_Label: PERIMETER Attribute_Definition: Length of polygon perimeter in native units. Attribute_Definition_Source: Software Computed Attribute: Attribute_Label: PROVINCE Attribute_Definition: Province name Attribute_Definition_Source: Data Compiler Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Character string containing Province name. 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Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data: World Vector Shoreline (WVS) for Canada - canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip Distribution_Liability: Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: SHP Format_Version_Number: ArcView 3.2 Format_Specification: ESRI polygon shapefile Format_Information_Content: The archive files contains the shapefile components, avl, prj, browse graphic and metadata files. File_Decompression_Technique: zip archive Transfer_Size: 24.533 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/canada/shoreline/canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip Network_Resource_Name: \\192.168.0.85\Data01\basemaps\canada\shoreline\wvs\canada_wvs_geo_wgs84.zip Access_Instructions: Data may be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW). Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: The data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS® or ArcView® 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20060807 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Position: Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time Metadata_Access_Constraints: None Metadata_Use_Constraints: None Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile